Gnash is not an Ubuntu package, but launchpad-integration doesn't know, was Re: Random problem when log onto UBUNTU Edgy

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:38:02PM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:37:13PM -0300, Diogo Matsubara wrote:
> > > I am sending this to the Launchpad since I also get an error when I try 
> > > to report the GNASH error.   This error says that the error reporting 
> > > address is wrong or non-existent and to report it to the Launchpad-users 
> > > list.  That is how I got here.
> > 
> > Looking over OOPS-291C343, I can see that you're trying to access page:
> > 
> >     https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnash/+bugs
> 
> Could it be the launchpad-integration package is detecting the source
> package name wrong? What package is this, gnash?
> 
> Ah. I see: it's not an official package.
> 
>     http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199370
> 
> and it appears that launchpad-integration is pointing to the page on
> Launchpad. This is very interesting! A third-party package's name is
> being used to redirect to Launchpad. It may be that
> launchpad-integration need to be fixed to check for the 404 and inform
> the user that the package is not maintained in Ubuntu. James?

Ideally this would be part of a more comprehensive "taint check" when
reporting a bug.  We want to detect things like:

- Is the package is an official Ubuntu package or one from a third-party
  source?

- Does the package pass an integrity check, such as md5sums of installed
  files?

- Is the package the most current version on the user's chosen branch?

and direct the user to more appropriate actions than attempting a bug report
in Launchpad.  These checks are straightforward to add to the proposed
client-side bug reporting tool, for which we need new functionality in
Launchpad (the ability to submit extra information to be attached to the
bug).

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 - mdz